www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20210617-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1624059180
“Right now, Washington, DC is overflowing with bills, reports, proposals for budgets, commissions, taskforces, leveraging of departmental resources, etc., etc. At best this is an unfocussed process of throwing money at problems instead of focusing on reality and solving real problems. At worst, as in Joe Biden’s Green New Deal, our economy will devolve much, much, further.
“All of the verbosity is supposedly aimed at dealing with the long-term economic collapse of the U.S. economy, its infrastructure, and the alleged threat from an emerging and technologically advancing China, upon whom we are dependent for most physical goods production, based on a grand cheap labor scheme engineered by our very own Wall Street elite. In reality, it is our idiotic globalist elites who have tossed out everything learned from Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon LaRouche about how to create an economy that prospers over the course of decades.”
From our Feature this week: “Washington: Worse Than Useless Babble When Only Precise Actions Matter”
A Note to Readers:
The Feature this week is an article by my colleague Mike Carr, which the quote from his article, above, summarizes it well.
We begin with my statement on the Recall effort of Governor Gavin Newsom. My title is: “Recall Newsom? Yes, but replace him with a man or woman of vision.”
Next we begin the drought, or megadrought coverage with the U.S. Drought Monitor for California and the West. That is followed by a couple of articles of an alarmist quality, which may or may not be justified. That is to be determined. They are titled: “Why This Year’s Drought in the Western US is Historic” and “Climate crisis in Western US worst in 1,200 years.”
The agricultural sector has already begun fallowing land, ripping out crops, including almond trees, and it is forecast that at least 500,000 acres will be fallowed this year. Two articles highlight the damage that is to come, and the appeal by national farm organizations for a “Call to Action for Enhancing Water Infrastructure.”
With reservoirs at near record lows, including Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam, electricity generation in the southwest is seriously being curtailed. Oroville Dam, it is forecast, will completely shutdown its generating by sometime this summer. In normal years about 20 percent of California’s electricity production comes from hydroelectric generation. In the 2011-2016 drought that fell to about 7 percent. The article included is titled: “California Drought Could Result in Major State Power Plant Being Temporarily Shut Down.”
That is followed by a related article that shows the foolishness of the state attempting to shift all power production to so-called renewables. The article is provocative, but read it carefully: “California’s Drought Tests Its Climate Goals.”
The last article before the Feature in this report is on the increased number and intensity of wildfires, which already are of a greater number than at this time last year. One article, “Record-breaking heat and drought fueling fires across the West,” covers the topic. I include a link to a second article, “Western wildfires spread through California and Arizona as drought furthers extreme fire conditions.”
